Senior UX Designer

Responsibilities The UX Designer will be responsible for creating a positive and productive end user experience for the client's applications and websites and for maintaining a user-centric focus throughout product development. The client is seeking a senior UX and Product Design lead to help create solutions that improve education technology integration and enable parents, teachers, schools, and district leaders to focus on what is most important -- their students. The UX and Product Design Lead will play a critical role in ensuring the successful deployment of technology solutions by maintaining a strong user-centric focus and driving alignment with existing work in the field. They will work under minimal supervision with extensive latitude for the use of initiative and use strong independent judgment. UX Designers at the client's are responsible for: Overseeing UX/UI designs to ensure design decisions are grounded in user experience and adhere to agency-wide design standards and industry-wide best practices Translating research into user stories, requirements, flows, wireframes, and prototypes and collaborating on the future product roadmap Employing user testing and outreach to ensure products meets the needs of the end users, in collaboration with partners Partnering with the product team and other key stakeholders, including senior leadership, on design solutions and rationales; collaborating with internal and external teams of product designers, developers, and product managers Qualifications Minimum Requirements: 8 years experience in software product development, digital design, UX/UI or a related field 8 years of designing mockups and/or wireframes that conform to UX best practices 8 years of as a portfolio of user research, visual design, and usability studies that demonstrates a high level of professionalism 8 years experience conducting user and usability research 5 years of demonstrated strong writing and organization skills 5 years of demonstrated strong communication and facilitation skills 4 years of direct experience leading large-scale UX/UI efforts 4 years of documented experience developing wireframes, mockups, and prototypes in Figma or comparable design software 3 years experience ensuring designs and website confirm to federal accessibility guidelines Preferred: 3 years documented work experience with the issue tracking software "Atlassian Jira" 2 years documented experience working for or closely with TEA or another state or local education agency